2020-2021 School Year

As the new school year is approaching, there will be some changes to how we communicate student placement. This year, in order to help our community avoid large gatherings, class lists will not be posted. Instead, our classroom teachers will be e-mailing or calling the parents/guardians of students in their class. Teachers will be contacting parents throughout today and next week. We will be having virtual orientation next week. We appreciate your patience during this time.

Online Summer School begins Monday, August 3rd

Dear Parents,

I hope summer break has given you a nice vacation from the chaotic end of the school year. River Oaks is planning to begin online summer school next week, Monday, August 3rd. If you are interested in online summer school to help prepare your child for the coming school year, please email me by tomorrow evening. I will be putting together a list of families for the office staff to contact.

Stay Safe,
Mrs. Talluto

Last Week of School!

This school year ended a lot differently than we all planned, but I was so happy to have each and every one of you in my class. Many of you worked so hard and it is important to keep that up over the summer. Please continue to read and practice sight words and practice math all summer long! We need to be ready for First and Second Grade!

Everyone has until Tuesday, June 9th at midnight to turn in assignments. I will be working on report cards the next day and cannot accept any assignments beyond that point. If you have any questions, please let me know.

I HOPE EVERYONE HAS A REALLY GREAT SUMMER AND I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING EVERYONE IN THE FALL!

Keep Chromebooks for Summer Learning!

Students may keep the Chromebooks they checked out to continue summer learning.

We still have a long time before next school year! Don’t let your child lose learning over the summer break!

Dearborn will continue offering free student meals over summer

Free student meal distributions will continue throughout the summer at seven Dearborn Public School sites.

The district has been distributing the free grab-and-go meals since shortly after the Governor ordered schools to close in March.  That program is slated to end on June 10, which is scheduled to be the last full day of school in the District.

However, Dearborn Schools received permission to continue serving free meals through the summer under the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program.

The summer meal distribution will be once a week on Wednesdays starting June 17. Food will be handed out every Wednesday from 10 a.m. to noon at the seven locations.  Each bag will contain seven breakfasts and seven lunches for each child under the age of 18.  Each child will also get a half gallon of milk.

The distribution locations will continue to be Fordson, Dearborn and Edsel Ford high schools, Woodworth and Smith middle schools, Salina Intermediate, and McCollough/Unis School.

One person can pick up food for any child living in the home.  The child does not need to attend that school. 

The District has recently been providing 65,000 grab-and-go meals a week for children in the community.  Those meals, which include lunch and breakfast, are funded through the U.S.D.A. School Lunch Program. Dearborn used that program to offer free lunch and breakfast to all its kindergarten through 12th grade students before the school closure in March. 

“We know our families appreciate the student meal distributions, and we are glad to be able to continue to offer children these meals during the summer months,” said Food Service Director Jeff Murphy.

School Reopen Committee Parent Survey June 1, 2020

The State, and our District, have begun the complicated and detailed discussion on the possible reopening of schools for the 2020-21 school year. These discussions will involve experts in instruction, operations, sanitation, transportation, food service, athletics, and many other areas that are part of operating a school district. Please know that any plans developed by the Dearborn Public Schools will need to adhere to directives and Executive Orders issued by the Governor.

Your feedback is required and valued in leading these plans at the district level. Please respond to the survey by June 12, 2020. Please keep an eye out for additional parent surveys in the near future.

*The survey is in Arabic as well.

Please fill out the survey: https://forms.gle/DNx3eN8hcRpXsfSs5

Picking Up Your Student’s Belongings

You can come to get your student’s personal items on Wednesday, June 3rd or Thursday, June 4th from 12-2 pm.  It will be a drive-through system.  Also, please bring any library books, LLI books, classroom books, book bags, and any other items that belong to teachers. They can be returned at that time.

Assignments June 1- June 5

Spelling

Practice the spelling pattern throughout the week as usual. Have a parent or sibling give your child a spelling test at the end of the week.

FIRST GRADE:

This week we have a new spelling pattern, contractions! :

Spelling words: didn’t, don’t, can’t, aren’t, isn’t, wasn’t, she’s, let’s, I’m
Challenge word: doesn’t

Rule: An apostrophe (this symbol ‘ ) is used in some words, called contractions, to combine two words. The apostrophe represents the missing letter.

  • In words with n’t the n’t represents the word not. The apostrophe replaces the o in not.
  • In some words with ’s the ’s replaces the word is.
  • In some words the ’s replaces the word us
  • In words with ‘m the apostrophe replaces the a in the word am

Spelling Notes: Below are the origin words for this week’s contraction spelling words.

  • did + not = didn’t
  • do + not = don’t
  • can + not = can’t
  • are + not = aren’t
  • is + not = isn’t
  • was + not = wasn’t
  • she + is = she’s
  • let + us = let’s
  • I + am = I’m
  • does + not = doesn’t — The word does has a tricky spelling because the oe sounds like /u/ and the s represents the /z/ sound.

KINDERGARTEN:

Your spelling pattern is: the -et family

Spelling Words: bet, get, jet, let, met, net, pet, set, vet, wet
Challenge Word: fret

Reading

Every child should be reading at least 40 minutes per day. This can be a combination of reading on Raz Kids to complete the required quizzes, reading on Epic, or any additional reading your child may do.

Raz Kids
Levels A-J should read and complete at least 2 quizzes on Raz Kids every day (10 per week).
Levels J-Z should read and complete at least one quiz on Raz Kids every day (5 per week).

If you are not sure of your child’s level please let me know.

I will be able to see your child’s quiz scores each time they take a quiz, so they should read carefully and look back in the book to check their answers! If they are having trouble I will email you to check in.

Math

FIRST GRADE:

This is the last week to complete work from Module 5. This was a short Module with only 13 lessons.

Zearn Lessons 5, 9, 10, 11 and 12 will be due on Friday. If your child finishes all of these lessons on Zearn before Friday, they have completed the grade math work for the school year! Celebrate!!! You may also choose to have them complete the lessons in their books, or continue to the end of Module 6. If you would like more information on how to prepare your child for second grade math, please email me.

Video Lessons

Below are videos of the Eureka Math lessons we would have completed in class. You can use these as references for the homework or complete them for extra practice.
There are also video lessons for 7 and 8 which are not included on Zearn:

LESSONS 5–6
LESSONS 7–8
LESSON 9
LESSON 10
LESSON 11
LESSON 12

KINDERGARTEN:

Please see the Eureka Kindergarten Math Videos page.

Writing

This week have your child read one article each day and write about what they have learned, or what they think is most important from the text. You may read the text aloud to them and google or discuss any tricky words- it’s a great idea to have them use the new words they learn in their writing.

Student writing should be at least three sentences long with a goal of five sentences, and it should focus on the information in the article of the day.

This week we are learning about how to stay safe and healthy.

Below are the articles for the week:

Lighters-Are-Not-ToysDownload

Fire-SafetyDownload

Stay-Safe-from-FireDownload

Fighting-FiresDownload

To-the-RescueDownload

Social Studies and Science:

Health and Safety

Now that we have completed our social studies history unit, we’ll review health and safety lessons that connect to other topics we have studied in science and social studies this year.

This week we’re learning about fire safety:

  • Test your smoke alarms.
  • Talk to your parents about what to do if you hear a smoke alarm go off at home.
  • Write or draw about why children should never play with matches, lighters or fire works.
  • Talk to your family about where to meet outside if there is a fire at home.
  • Draw a picture of your family’s meeting place.

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Fire Dogs Long Ago and Today
How Do Fire Fighters Stay Safe in Smoke?

Submitting Assignments

Your students now have until Tuesday, June 9th at midnight to submit all assignments. If you have any questions, please let me know.

Assignments 5/26-5/31

  • Eid Mubarak to those who celebrate!
  • This week we have lessons for only 4 days, we had no school Monday 5/25 because of Memorial Day.
  • Progress reports have been sent out. As I receive assignments, I can update these.
  • This Week’s Assignments have been posted. Click the link to view the full description of this week’s assignments. 
  • New articles (only 4) have been posted for writing this week.
  • We will continue reviewing science and social studies topics, with a focus on health and safety.  
  • Teachers will be bagging up student property at school this week. An announcement will be made later this week about times parents can come pick up the items the week of June 1.
  • The last day to submit assignments for a grade will be June 7 at 11:59 p.m.
  • The last official week of school June 8-11. No new work will be posted that week. I am planning to only share student work, some fun end of the year activities, and ideas for helping parents prevent learning loss over the summer.